Piggy Bank Scrapers

The following are a collection of piggy bank scrapers which I've
written and may be of interest to others. To load these scrapers view
the scraper metadata in piggy-bank
(or simply click on the 'data icon' in the bottom of your firefox
window) and following the scraper
installation instructions. If you don't see a 'data icon' at the
bottom right of your firefox window, changes are you don't have piggy-bank install. Go
get it!

NOTE: These scrapers are more for demonstration /
educational purposes and should not be considered production level
ready. Scrapers are subject to change, enhancements without
notice. Comments, suggestions and (better yet) submitted patches
welcomed.

OCLC's Open Worldcat

OCLC's Open WorldCat program
makes records of library-owned materials in OCLC's WorldCat database
available to Web users. WorldCat currently has more than 1 billion
holdings.

The worldcat scraper extracts
the relevant bibliographic information from a worldcat record and the
libraries near you (via ZIP code) that have the relevant resource and
allows you to overlay this information on map. Though the piggy-bank's
use of combining
collections, you can plot multiple resources on a single map to
help determine which library nearest you has all of the items you're
looking for.

Click piggy-bank 'data coin' icon and follow directions - you'll get back the book and the libraries which own the book.

Choose 'coordinates (map)' to display these libraries via google maps. Save it to your piggy-bank, or share with others via a Semantic Bank.

NCBI's Pubmed

NCBI pubmed
is a service of the National
Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from
MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back
to the 1950s. NCBI pubmed includes links to both full text articles
and other related resources.

This pubmed scraper extracts a
subset of the relevant article information, including authors, MESH
subject headings (and soon chemical information, genes and protiens)
and makes this data available in Piggy-Bank to better enable the
integration of this data with other collections of information.

Starbucks Scraper

This Starbucks scraper extracts the location of
Starbuck coffee shops near you for use in Piggy Bank. I particulary
find this useful when I combine the
results from this with the results from the open worldcat scraper.